Principal Engineer Software, Tools & Platforms (Cortex)

Location: Hybrid, Santa Clara, California, United States of America; most teams work from the office full time with flexibility when needed.

Salary: $156,400–$253,000 per year in base salary; additional restricted stock units and bonus may be included.

Company

hirify.global develops cybersecurity products and platforms focused on protecting digital environments.

What you will do

• Architect and implement resilient infrastructure focused on performance, security, and sound system design.
• Write product and system development code and lead complex feature design and development.
• Lead technical design reviews and drive architectural and engineering best practices.
• Conduct expert code reviews covering quality, testability, efficiency, diagnostics, and maintainability.
• Establish technical documentation standards and improve engineering practices.
• Provide advanced operational support and lead troubleshooting for Cortex DevOps tooling and applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and compute platforms.
• 5+ years of deep expertise with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud and modern cloud-native architectures.
• 5+ years of experience developing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes microservices with modern cloud-native technologies.
• Expertise in system architecture, scalability, reliability, performance optimization, security, observability, and operational excellence.
• 5+ years of experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, platform engineering, and developer productivity tooling.
• Expert knowledge of software quality practices, code health, testing strategies, performance analysis, diagnostics, debugging, and production support.

Nice to have

• Experience leading enterprise-scale technical initiatives, influencing architecture across multiple engineering organizations, and driving engineering strategy without direct organizational authority.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for influencing executive leadership, architects, and engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration is emphasized, with flexibility when needed.
• Employee benefits are available, with compensation potentially including restricted stock units and a bonus.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
• Immigration sponsorship is eligible for this role.
• Equal employment opportunity and inclusive hiring practices are followed.